MT, if you could run this through some kind of text reader that would be great. Thanks.
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Technology
Big Brother is Alive and Well
The US and the UK are "endemic
surveillance societies" - in the same
league as China and Russia -says an
annual report examining privacy
protection globally. Released last month
by advocacy groups Privacy International
of the UK and the Electronic Privacy
safeguards globally compared to 2006.
The US was in the bottom group for
the first time, following the signing into
law of amendments to the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act, which
permits spying on international phone
calls and emails without a warrant.
Like last year, the UK earned bottom
place thanks to its network of
surveillance cameras - the world's
largest - plus plans to roll out national
identity cards rich with personal and
biometric information, and little
government accountability when
personal information is lost. The UK
government "has access to its people and
technology that China doesn't", says Gus
Hosein of Privacy International. "There is
a rapid expansion of technologies for
surveillance, identification and border
control, and a much slower adoption of
policies to safeguard privacy and
security," adds EPIC's Marc Rotenberg.
Despite this, John Palfrey of the Open
Net Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts,
says the position in China and Russia is
worse than in the US because they lack
constitutional privacy protection. The
only country judged to have "adequate
safeguards" is Greece, where an
independent data privacy authority can
fine or imprison government officials.
Mon Mar 24, 2008 1:46 pm
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postcardsfrompalestine VIP
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Peter, don't worry about. If you are a good little boy then the government won't bother you.
Only problem is that they define what good is and they are constantly changing the definition.
I have decided to form my own village in the Mountains, no tv's allowed, no internet, no money, just communal life with livestock and farming. I might allow few selected books. I will need to a monster to keep all my people from venturing off to the big city.
I have decided to form my own village in the Mountains, no tv's allowed, no internet, no money, just communal life with livestock and farming. I might allow few selected books. I will need to a monster to keep all my people from venturing off to the big city.
lol
Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:52 am
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alexclaton VIP
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 640 Location: Hell on earth
Quote:
I have decided to form my own village in the Mountains, no tv's allowed, no internet, no money, just communal life with livestock and farming. I might allow few selected books. I will need to a monster to keep all my people from venturing off to the big city.
lol, well call u the village people
Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:07 pm
postcardsfrompalestine VIP
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 1737 Location: It means good luck - a chinese symbol
My Wife
My Wife says, she won't live with me if I choose to have no power and TV. :( but she said she would visit once a week.
Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:01 pm
alexclaton VIP
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 640 Location: Hell on earth
Re: My Wife
postcardsfrompalestine wrote:
My Wife says, she won't live with me if I choose to have no power and TV. :( but she said she would visit once a week.
LMAO.... sorry but thats funny and fukked up at the same time.... u should smash ur tv to bits just cuz she said that... "nomore soaps omfg its da end of teh world nooooooozzzz!!!!"
as for power theres nothing wrong with electricity if used to empower ur life... wasting away on a couch is an example of what NOT to do with electricity
